nixpkgs/nixos/lib/make-ext4-fs.nix

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# Builds an ext4 image containing a populated /nix/store with the closure
# of store paths passed in the storePaths parameter, in addition to the
# contents of a directory that can be populated with commands. The
# generated image is sized to only fit its contents, with the expectation
# that a script resizes the filesystem at boot time.
{ pkgs
, lib
# List of derivations to be included
, storePaths
# Whether or not to compress the resulting image with zstd
, compressImage ? false, zstd
# Shell commands to populate the ./files directory.
# All files in that directory are copied to the root of the FS.
, populateImageCommands ? ""
, volumeLabel
, uuid ? "44444444-4444-4444-8888-888888888888"
, e2fsprogs
, libfaketime
, perl
, lkl
}:
let
sdClosureInfo = pkgs.buildPackages.closureInfo { rootPaths = storePaths; };
in
pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "ext4-fs.img${lib.optionalString compressImage ".zst"}";
nativeBuildInputs = [ e2fsprogs.bin libfaketime perl lkl ]
++ lib.optional compressImage zstd;
buildCommand =
''
${if compressImage then "img=temp.img" else "img=$out"}
(
mkdir -p ./files
${populateImageCommands}
)
# Add the closures of the top-level store objects.
storePaths=$(cat ${sdClosureInfo}/store-paths)
# Make a crude approximation of the size of the target image.
# If the script starts failing, increase the fudge factors here.
numInodes=$(find $storePaths ./files | wc -l)
numDataBlocks=$(du -s -c -B 4096 --apparent-size $storePaths ./files | tail -1 | awk '{ print int($1 * 1.03) }')
bytes=$((2 * 4096 * $numInodes + 4096 * $numDataBlocks))
echo "Creating an EXT4 image of $bytes bytes (numInodes=$numInodes, numDataBlocks=$numDataBlocks)"
truncate -s $bytes $img
faketime -f "1970-01-01 00:00:01" mkfs.ext4 -L ${volumeLabel} -U ${uuid} $img
# Also include a manifest of the closures in a format suitable for nix-store --load-db.
cp ${sdClosureInfo}/registration nix-path-registration
cptofs -t ext4 -i $img nix-path-registration /
# Create nix/store before copying paths
faketime -f "1970-01-01 00:00:01" mkdir -p nix/store
cptofs -t ext4 -i $img nix /
echo "copying store paths to image..."
cptofs -t ext4 -i $img $storePaths /nix/store/
echo "copying files to image..."
cptofs -t ext4 -i $img ./files/* /
export EXT2FS_NO_MTAB_OK=yes
# I have ended up with corrupted images sometimes, I suspect that happens when the build machine's disk gets full during the build.
if ! fsck.ext4 -n -f $img; then
echo "--- Fsck failed for EXT4 image of $bytes bytes (numInodes=$numInodes, numDataBlocks=$numDataBlocks) ---"
cat errorlog
return 1
fi
echo "Resizing to minimum allowed size"
resize2fs -M $img
# And a final fsck, because of the previous truncating.
fsck.ext4 -n -f $img
if [ ${builtins.toString compressImage} ]; then
echo "Compressing image"
zstd -v --no-progress ./$img -o $out
fi
'';
}